Wednesday Randoms

[rubytue]

Oct 23, 2024 14:28:59 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

rubytue that doesn't even make sense. TOT here ends at 8pm. Our kids still keep their normal bedtimes when Halloween is a weeknight. I think you should get to call in though;)

Anyone attending both days of the two day meeting would stay in Philly overnight. So they wouldn’t be home for TOT. 

I mean, I could justify both days if I wanted to, but I just plain ol don’t want to go. But, given my position and no one else wanting to, I make the most sense to go and be the face of us. And I’m mostly fine with it, except 5:30am.

[maudefindlay]

My colon xray came back normal, just have odd anatomy (longer than usual and a portion is twisted). Good news is next colonoscopy is 10 years away! I actually knew the tech at the xray, an acquaintance I hadn't seen in a while. That makes twice in the past year I knew someone at an appointment where I was naked/or had my backside bare. 10 years ago I would have been mortified, now I'm like, eh, ok.

[redheadk]

Oct 23, 2024 15:33:36 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

Oct 23, 2024 15:23:50 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

I don't know what our middle school principal is thinking (and she's not well liked), but she actually put in one of her weekly newsletters that it was totally fine to send kids who just didn't feel 100% so they didn't miss school. And that "usually" they perk up around friends.

And then we went to back to school night and the teachers are all telling us to please not send in sick kids. 

When school budgets are tied to attendance we get crap like this and the perfect attendance prizes etc.

In TX, funding is based on our ADA time which is 10:40 so I'm also abiding by their request to have her in school at 10:40 so they get paid for her attendance. Ironically, that time happens during her TX History class which is project based and the easiest one to miss of her academic classes so I guess now I'll make her appointments during that class which will cause the school to not be paid for her attendance. It's madness. But I am not interested in DD having to stay after school for 2 hours to complete some nonsense seat time requirement in which she is just told to play on her phone the entire time. Painful? Not really, but hugely inconvenient and pointless.

[redheadk]

Oct 23, 2024 15:23:50 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

Oct 23, 2024 14:58:16 GMT -5 redheadk said:

I just got an email that dd has had too many absences in 7th period (foods, a basic cooking class) and is danger of having to complete seat time.

She has 3 advanced academic classes, followed by lunch, then another advanced class. All of her electives are at the end of the day.

She has braces and wears contacts. Medical appointments have to happen and we bring in a Dr note for each one. How does it make more sense to schedule appointments during core academic classes? WTF kind of lunacy is this? She was also sick (active vomiting) for a few days and missed 3 full days of school, apparently I should have just sent her? School doesn’t end until 4, I cannot get her to her appointments without missing at least a small amount of school.

I’m so irritated. This shit where the rules are not based on actual logic and don’t allow for a human to apply any make me so frustrated with public schools here.

I don't know what our middle school principal is thinking (and she's not well liked), but she actually put in one of her weekly newsletters that it was totally fine to send kids who just didn't feel 100% so they didn't miss school. And that "usually" they perk up around friends.

And then we went to back to school night and the teachers are all telling us to please not send in sick kids. 

I make her go when she has some sniffles and isn't 100% but still perfectly able to function; we just cut back on after school activities and go to bed earlier. But I'm not about to send a puking kid to school no matter what their guidelines are.